MTL - Rebirth in a Perfect Era-Chapter 1707 Cooperation in the automotive field

Li Mu's efforts made traveling to China the most popular choice for international tourism.

Since the pandas have been burning all over the world, the number of overseas tourists visiting China has increased by more than 200% compared with the same period last year, and the immigration management department has even speculated that in the near future, the number of overseas tourists traveling to China will continue to exist. On the basis of doubling.

The reason for this is because the number of tourists applying for China Travel Visa is very large, and visa applications received by embassies around the world are many times more than before.

For overseas tourists, if they want to come to China for tourism, applying for a visa is the first step. They may not be ready for travel for the time being, or they may not have planned the travel time and route for the time being, but they already have this idea, so they want to First apply for a visa.

The embassy has been relaxing and accelerating the approval of tourist visas, not only because these overseas tourists can bring huge income to the domestic tourism industry, but also because through these overseas tourists, it is possible to modify the inherent knowledge of China and transfer overseas. China's landscape and culture.

In the UK, the Windsor family is also actively promoting cooperation with Makino Technology.

Although the Windsor family is not in power, its influence in the UK is still very strong, and the Windsor family's own industries are also spread across all walks of life. In Europe, it can be said that it is one of the strongest families with comprehensive strength, so immediately began helping Li Mu. All kinds of tourism resources needed throughout the UK.

The current manager of the Goldberg family, who has a certain friendship with Li Mu, Davidson Gabor, also received the message that Li Mu wanted to open up European exports. He immediately called Li Mu and brought good news to Li Mu.

Davidson told Li Mu: "Mr. Li, our Goldberg family has shares in several European airlines. If necessary, I can match these airlines with in-depth cooperation with Makino Technology, and deeply cooperate with Makino Technology in China in the future in Europe Tourist routes. "

Li Mu said with surprise: "Thank you very much, Mr. Gao Bai. I did not expect that your Goldberg family business is involved in such a wide range, not only the banking, finance and investment banking industries, but also the airlines."

Davidson laughed: "In fact, the situation in Europe is not the same as in North America and China. There are many new industries and new riches in North America and China, especially Internet rich people like Mr. Li. But in Europe, Old-Money is generally supporting And most of the funds are in traditional industries such as finance, industry, and energy. These traditional industries are also industries that our family has been cultivating. "

Then, Davidson said, "In fact, we also have some shares in Daimler. This time you contact Mr. Li, there is still a small matter to work with you."

Li Mu asked curiously: "Daimler is the parent company of Mercedes-Benz?"

"Yes," Davidson said. "Daimler has several car brands, and Mercedes-Benz is one of them."

Li Mu asked again, "What do you want to do with me?"

Davidson said with a smile: "Daimler has been promoting a sub-brand since 1998. This brand may not have been listed on the market. It is called smart. It is a small car brand that was previously produced by Mercedes-Benz and Swatch. Super tiny car, I wonder if you have heard of Mr. Li? "

"Smart?" Li Mu frowned. Of course he had heard of the Mercedes-Benz smart car. Not only had he heard of it, he had also driven this car in his last life.

To be honest, this smart car is not suitable for big men like Li Mu, even if the car is very small, the power is just average, it can't run too fast, the noise is not small, and the driving experience is not worth ten The price is tens of thousands, but the win is in the brand, styling and ultra-mini concept.

You do n’t need to worry about parking when you open Smart. It ’s okay to park three trampolines. Driving it in a metropolis is much more convenient than driving a car. In addition, it is also very convenient for gas plugging and low fuel consumption. Some of the advantages.

So Li Mu asked, "I know Smart, but what do you want to do with Smart?"

Davidson laughed: "I am also entrusted to you. Did n’t you license the image of the panda bear to BMW, BMW just launched the concept map yesterday, and will launch a limited edition panda bear in the next one or two months. Mini-Cooper, the front face of the entire car is the shape of the panda bear and the pull flower. As soon as this concept map came out, the European dealers received many intentional orders. It is expected that the future sales will be very good. It is suitable for cartoon shapes, so I also hope to get the authorization of Panda Bear to produce a limited edition Smart of Panda Bear. "

Li Mu laughed: "This little thing still requires you to call in person to communicate? I will arrange the marketing department and send the power of attorney to Smart."

Davidson laughed: "That's great, thank you Mr. Li, Smart has always been looking for a suitable opportunity to launch, it seems this good opportunity has come."

"You're welcome." Li Mu laughed. "For us, this is a matter of hand."

Then, Li Mu suddenly thought that he had to lay out the production line in advance before Tesla could go into mass production, so he asked Davidson: "By Davidson, if I want to buy an automobile manufacturing company, do you have anything? Good recommendation? "

"Car company?" Davidson asked in surprise: "Mr. Li wants to get involved in the car industry?"

Li Mu laughed: "I want to come in and try the water."

Davidson asked, "I don't know what types of cars you are interested in? Do you want to buy a supercar brand to play with?"

Li Mudao: "No, no, no, I'm not interested in supercars, ordinary civilian cars, such as ordinary cars, luxury cars, or SUVs."

Davidson thought about it and said, "There are two car brands in the UK, one is Jaguar and the other is Land Rover. I wonder if Mr. Lee has heard of it?"

Li Mu said, "Have you heard of which company these two brands are in?"

"It's in Ford's hands and it's not doing very well," Davidson said.

Speaking, Devenson also said, "Ford acquired Jaguar more than ten years ago, and bought Land Rover from BMW four years ago, and then integrated the two brands together, but the overall performance is relatively miserable. Jaguar Land Rover is now One of Ford's several baggage, Ford has the intention to sell, but there seems to be no interested buyers in the industry. Everyone thinks that these two brands are difficult to make. "

Li Mu frowned.

Jaguar Land Rover sold well in Huaxia in his lifetime. Jaguar was a bit inferior, but Land Rover really blew up the sky. A "Snail House" made Land Rover out of control in China.

However, Ford seems to be more miserable. They sold the Jaguar Land Rover to India's Tata before the Land Rover fire.

This operation is very boring, it is equivalent to cutting meat at the lowest point, and then letting Tata buy it all the way.

If you have the opportunity to buy Jaguar Land Rover now, it would be a good deal.

Although Li Mu doesn't know the specific content of automobile manufacturing, he talked to Elon Musk. Tesla has several general-purpose large-scale technologies with traditional gasoline cars. The chassis is the most important one.

The chassis thing, to put it plainly, is a set of platforms, which is a complete set of solutions from wheelbase to engine gearbox layout, suspension, tuning, various electrical control systems, stabilization systems, and so on.

Even if Tesla is a pure electric vehicle, it cannot be separated from a set of mature and reliable chassis technology. In addition to the earliest Roadster, the chassis technology was taken from Lotus. The subsequent major models, from the X to The cheap 3 is based on its own developed platform.

With existing off-the-shelf gasoline vehicle platforms, Tesla's R & D and production will be easier.

For example, using Jaguar's XJ platform to produce Tesla's Model-S, it is only necessary to lighten the chassis on the basis of XJ, lay out the battery compartment, and then replace the engine, gearbox and transmission components. The lower front and rear suspension and electronic control system are reserved, and a medium and large luxury Tesla is basically complete.

Jaguar also has a XKR sports car. Building a Roadster based on this platform is not necessarily worse than the Lotus site.

As for Land Rover, in the future SUV and hard-coated off-road vehicle fire, this brand will make good money in hand. Even if it cannot be used to produce pure electric hard-coated off-road with Tesla, at least it can be used to make money.

What's more, buying Jaguar Land Rover now should be the absolute minimum price.

After Ford entered the year 2000, its operations were messed up, and its losses became more and more serious. In the next few years, it gradually sold its own industry. Jaguar Land Rover sold it to India's Tata, and Volvo sold it to domestic companies. force……

Oh yes, and Volvo!

To be mixed with Tesla, Volvo is actually more suitable than Jaguar Land Rover!

Volvo's models are more comprehensive, from small cars to large cars, luxury cars, to SUVs, the product line is very comprehensive, although a little ugly, but the safety aspect is really in place.

Volvo now has three main models of the S series, V series and XC series ~ www.novelbuddy.com ~. It has a complete product lineup that also covers two mid-size SUVs and large SUVs, and the XC series is not hardcore. Off-road, the concept of Model-X can be transplanted to the XC series.

More importantly, Volvo has many patented technologies in the field of safety. This is packaged and taken together and integrated into Tesla, which can save Tesla a lot of basic work in future autonomous driving.

In the simplest terms, a set of adaptive cruise, pre-collision system, pedestrian protection system and lane departure system can be used to make semi-autonomous driving. On the basis of this system, more intelligent navigation, safety, The recognition function can basically touch the threshold of autonomous driving.

If you take down Volvo yourself, Tesla will be too worried in the future, and you can build your own product system and technical barriers directly on the basis of Volvo.

Moreover, Tesla can also feed back its technology to Volvo, Jaguar and Land Rover.

For example, Tesla can take out its own intelligent driving function to enhance the intelligence of these three brands, and it can also help Tesla's own models to achieve based on Tesla's own motor and battery technology. Expansion of hybrid power.

The low-power motor, small-capacity battery pack, and mains charging module and energy recovery module are inserted into the oil-powered car, and then the overall tuning is performed. This has become a plug-in hybrid car.

Plugging a smaller motor, a smaller-capacity battery pack, an on-board charging module, and an energy recovery module into a normal hybrid car.

And Tesla itself has its own motor technology, battery pack technology, charge and discharge technology, and energy recovery technology. Isn't this already alive?

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